Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — Norwegian Farming. [ARTICLE]

Norwegian Farming.

Farming in tlie Norwegian valleys presents some unique aspects. Grain, potatoes and turnips grow in little patches. Meadow hay is carefully cut and cured on rods or ropes supported on tall poles. Every corner on which I grass will grow is utilized for hay, even the little nooks among the crags, from which it is lowered to the valleys by means of ropes or wires, that nothing may be lost. The Scandinavian cows arc of a peexxliav national breed, and not only they, but goats, and even ewes, contribute to the cheese vats. Horses are seldom lai'ger than mere ponies. These little animals do all the farm work, for in Norway oxen are employed for tillage. Norway is sparsely settled. Emigration is taking away its more ambitious sons and daughters. But its people are intensely patriotic, and .their land contains •much to delight the traveler.— St. Louis GloheDem ocrat.